Casket-handle



NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.,

Jo-IN MCCARTHY, on sYRAoUsn, NEW YORK.

CASKET-HAN DLE.

SPECIFIGATION formng part of Letters Patent No. 494,822, dated April 4,1893.

Original application filed February 29, 1892, erial No. 423,159. Dividedand this application filed June 23, 1892. erial No.

.T0 all witam it may con/cera:

Be it known that I, JOHN MCCARTHY, of Syracuse, in the county ofOnondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Casket-Handles, of which the following, taken inconnection with the accornpanying drawing's, is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invention relates to handles for trunks, boxes, caskets and analogousreceptacles, in which the handles are adapted to be shut down when notin use; and which are provided with a relief bar to rednce the strainupon the hinge pins by which the handle bar or its arms are connected tothe body plate, or to the side of 'the receptacle.

My object is to produce a handle adapted to be folded down, to which astraiu relieving bar is connected, said bar being adapted to traverse anopening through the side of the receptacle, when the handle is raised orlowered and provided with a head Operating as a stop to the raising ofsuch handle beyond a certain point, when said bar becomes an auxiliarysupport to the handle, and to a certain extent 'relieve the hinge pin inthe joint between the handle bar, or its arms, and the body plate, fromthe strain of the weight.

My invention consists in the several novel features of construction andoperation hereinafter desoribed and which are specifically set forth inthe claim hereunto annexed.

This application is filed as a division of an application filed by meFebruary 29, 1892, Serial No. 423,159, for casket handles, and for` theremainder of which application, after the elimination of this invention,a patent was allowed to nie April 1, 1892. It is constructed as follows,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Fignre 1, isa front elevaton of the handle, shut down. Fig. 2, is a Verticaltransverse sectional elevation of the same opened or raised up. Fig. 3,is a rear elevation of part of the side of the receptacle, showing thestop (No model.)

plate seated therein orsecured thereto. Fig. 4, is a front elevation ofpart of the side of the receptacle with the handle-body plate securedthere-to, and showing the aperture through said side, and omitting thehandle bar.

A-, is part of the side of a box or like receptacle and ais the bodyplate, to which an arm -bof the handle cis hinged in the usual manner. Arelief or anxiliary sup porting bar -dis rigidly or loosely connected tothe handle bar, and its free end passes loosely through the aperture-e'- in the side of the box and upon its inner end is provided with ahead -e'-, adapted to engage with the inner face of the side of the box,or with a stop-plate --7-, secnred thereon, when the handle bar israised. This aperture may be provided with a lining mif desired.

The stop-plate consists of a body provided With a notch -h'-, adaptingsaid plate to straddle the relief bar behind its head, and also has oneedge tapered, in order to enable me to adj ust said plate, properly,with relation to the traversing movexnents of the relief bar throughsaid aperture when the handle bar is raised to bring the head againstthe inside of the box or the plate, or lowered to bring the handleagainst the outside thereof, when the relief bar is projected into thebox.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The combination with the handle bar, its arm, and the body plate towhich said arm is hinged, of a relief bar connected to the handle bar orits arm, and passing through an aperture in the side of the receptacle,and provided with a head upon its inner end.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of June,1892.

JOHN MCCARTHY.

In presence of- C. W. SMITH, HOWARD P. DENIsoN.

